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TIL Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Brewing Company, was murdered in an attempted kidnapping.

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5VDJ8 TIL that in 1927 heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney received a check for $1,000,000 for his second fight vs. Jack Dempsey, making him the first athlete in history to be paid $1,000,000 in a single year, or for a single sporting event.
VMmW0 TIL that the beloved British dish of fish&chips was the result of Portugeuse Jews fleeing the Inquisition and bringing their fried fish dish and potatoes losing their bad reputation as gross and poisonous, becoming a European staple.
9JdG TIL Sailor Moon in Japan had a lesbian couple, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptume. In the English translation this is censored, stating they are cousins instead. Due to problematic dubbing flirting was left in, leading some viewers to infer their relationship as incestuous.
pYxZN TIL that the word "commonwealth" is is an English transliteration of Latin "respublica" which in turn is the root word of the word "republic", as well as the Polish transliterated "Rzeczpospolita"
Y7RPv TIL that there were 1752 books in Newton’s personal library after his death. (1763 if being included titles of which Newton owned more than one copy). Here's a category breakdown: Theology (477), Alchemy (169), Mathematics (126), Physics (52), Astronomy (33).